HOUSTON — Rebecca Harrison clutched a red folder of court papers detailing her ex-husband's molestation conviction from 16 years earlier, waiting for her case to be called by a Harris County family court judge.

“I just can't believe it,” she said, warily eyeing her ex-husband, Mohammed Malekzadeh, a native of Iran, as he sat on a wooden bench in the hallway outside the courtroom Tuesday. “We always assumed he would be deported when he finished his sentence. Everyone did. It's scary.”

Malekzadeh was, in fact, ordered deported from the U.S. in 2001 while still serving a 30-year sentence in a Texas prison for drugging a teenage employee of his auto repair business and molesting her. But because of a diplomatic and bureaucratic stalemate with Iran, immigration officials were unable to secure travel documents needed to formally deport Malekzadeh after he was released from prison last year.

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